Thanks for the link Kyros. <According to the researchers, many individuals carrying the gene for one of these diseases also receive an “IQ boost.” Rabbi Moses Tendler, who holds a doctorate in biology and teaches biology at Yeshiva University, says there is “no doubt that genetic makeup determines intelligence and, indeed, predisposes as well as offers resistance to genetic diseases.” >
Tendler got that wrong. Genetic makeup giving high intelligence in Ashkenazi does NOT predispose or offer resistance to genetic diseases. The diseases are correlated, not caused, by the smart genes, or there would not be the super-smart without the diseases.
High intelligence is, unlike nearly everything else, cost-free. One doesn't need a huge head, high blood pressure, more protein, extra height or anything difficult to fit into the regular cranium and chemical processes. One just needs the right cell layouts and proportions, just as the latest Pentium super-chip doesn't take more room than the olde XT processor. There is more processing power in the latest CDMA cyberphones than there was in room-sized supercomputers of the 1970s. Power consumption is lower. Everything is better. And it can fit into a little cyberphone.
Same with brains.
I wish my parents had been able to tick the box for IQ = 200 [and had done so] instead of handing me a random pile of mutation to battle with. Imagine how easy the "education" system would be. Pass all the stuff at age 7 and get out of there.
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